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amber

[am-ber] / ˈæm bər /
ADJECTIVE
gold-colored
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NOUN
goldish color
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An amber wind warning for Saturday covers much of Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland and the far north of England.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

A red warning is in place for Guernsey and Jersey, while Cornwall and parts of Devon are under an amber weather warning for strong winds.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Met Office has issued an amber wind warning for Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly, Plymouth and parts of Devon valid between 1am and 10am on Friday.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

"With the amber warning, it means the all-weather lifeboats are more called upon," McCarthy explained.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

I spin and find myself looking into an amber eye.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

I would swim early in the morning when the water was still or late at night as the sun set, casting stunning ambers and pinks streaks through the sky.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025

The sunrise ambers and midnight blues of Joshua Cutts’s lighting design illuminate Michael’s states of mind as much as they do time and place.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

The set design by Clint Ramos and Miguel Urbino emphasizes depth of field, its white framework a receptive canvas for Linda Cho’s refined midcentury costumes and the warm ambers of David Weiner’s lighting.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

Tabasheer seems to stand in the same relation to the mineral kingdom as do ambers and pearls.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various

They have always seemed to contain this suggestion for me: flowers that seemed to be much more the embodiment of jades, rubies, emeralds, and ambers, than just flowers from the common garden.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley


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